Cultural Diversity and Global Media: The Mediation of Difference

Cultural Diversity and Global Media explores the
relationship between the media and multiculturalism.

Summarises and critically discusses current approaches to
multiculturalism and the media from a global perspecive

Explores both the theoretical debates and empirical findings on
multiculturalism and the media

Assumes the new perspective of mediation of cultural diversity,
which critically combines elements of previous theories in order to
gain a better understanding of the relationship between the media
and cultural diversity

Explores media ‘moments’ of production,
representation and consumption, while incorporating arguments on
their shifting roles and boundaries

Examines separately the role of the internet, which is linked
to many changes in patterns of media production, representation and
to increased possibilities for diasporic and transnational
communication

Contains pedagogical features that enable readers to understand
and critically engage with the material, and draws upon and reviews
an extensive bibliography, providing a useful reference tool.

Eugenia Siapera is lecturer in Media and Communications at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the author (with Lincoln Dahlberg) of Radical Democracy and the Internet (2007) and (with Joss Hands) At the Interface (2004).

Summarises and critically discusses current approaches to
multiculturalism and the media from a global perspecive

Explores both the theoretical debates and empirical findings
on multiculturalism and the media

Assumes the new perspective of mediation of cultural
diversity, which critically combines elements of previous theories
in order to gain a better understanding of the relationship between
the media and cultural diversity

Explores media ‘moments’ of production,
representation and consumption, while incorporating arguments on
their shifting roles and boundaries

Examines separately the role of the internet, which is
linked to many changes in patterns of media production,
representation and to increased possibilities for diasporic and
transnational communication

Contains pedagogical features that enable readers to
understand and critically engage with the material, and draws upon
and reviews an extensive bibliography, providing a useful reference
tool.

"It is easy to read, clearly written and well organised". (Times Higher Education Supplement, 4 November 2010)

In Cultural Diversity and Global Media we learn that understanding the mediation of cultural diversity requires a comparative, global outlook. This is an invaluable contribution to the study of cultural diversity and media, providing both the tools and background necessary to study media representations of cultural diversity critically. It will help students and faculty alike to understand how discourse and media engage cultural diversity within increasingly complex global contexts. Kent Ono, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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